StoryTitle("caps", "Balade") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hyd, Absolon, thy gilte tresses clere; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ester, ley thou thy meknesse al a-doun; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hyd, Jonathas, al thy frendly manere; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Penalopee, and Marcia Catoun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mak of your wyfhod no comparisoun; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hyde ye your beautes, Isoude and Eleyne; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy faire body, lat hit nat appere, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lavyne; and thou, Lucresse of Rome toun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Polixene, that boghten love so dere, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Cleopatre, with al thy passioun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hyde ye your trouthe of love and your renoun; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou, Tisbe, that hast of love swich peyne; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Herro, Dido, Laudomia, alle y-fere, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Phyllis, hanging for thy Demophoun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Canace, espyed by thy chere, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ysiphile, betraysed with Jasoun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Maketh of your trouthe neyther boost ne soun; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor Ypermistre or Adriane, ye tweyne; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne.", "") ?>
Poet("Geoffrey Chaucer", "1340?-1400") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>